Last night I appeared on Hugh's show, and his producer Duane mentioned a Michelle Obama speech at UCLA. Captain Ed talked about this a bit, but I hadn't seen anyone transcribe the part of the speech where it gets a little... unnerving. It starts at about 8:41 in the audio.

Barack Obama will require you to work. He is going to demand that you shed your cynicism. That you put down your divisions. That you come out of your isolation, that you move out of your comfort zones. That you push yourselves to be better. And that you engage. Barack will never allow you to go back to your lives as usual, uninvolved, uninformed.

I'm sorry, nowhere in the Constitution does it authorize the President of the United States to demand anyone shed their cynicism. And I'm all for people pushing themselves to be better, but I don't think the President demanding it is the way to go about it.

And what if we kind of like our lives as usual? What about Americans' freedom to be uninvolved and uninformed?

Darleen at Protein Wisdom transcribed what follows:

"You have to stay at the seat at the table of democracy with a man like Barack Obama not just on Tuesday but in a year from now, in four years from now, in eights years from now, you will have to be engaged."

Ah. Apparently apathy will be criminalized, then?

Does anybody on the left side of the aisle find this rhetoric a little creepy? Isn't this describing an authoritarian presidency way beyond anything George W. Bush has done or proposed?

Do the powers of the presidency really encompass everything Michelle says Obama wants and plans to do? Based on this rhetoric, isn't he actually running for messiah?

>>Barack Obama will require you to work. He is going to demand that you shed your cynicism. That you put down your divisions. That you come out of your isolation, that you move out of your comfort zones. That you push yourselves to be better. And that you engage. Barack will never allow you to go back to your lives as usual, uninvolved, uninformed. <<

Wow! So he wants to abolish Welfare, food stamps and section 8 housing?!

Hes got my vote!

Or am I somehow missreading that...?

**********************************************************

No, you’re not misreading that, you’re just one failed Five-Year Plan early in your interpretation of dogma, that’s all.

105
posted on 02/20/2008 12:38:29 PM PST
by headsonpikes
(Genocide is the highest sacrament of socialism.)

“Barack Obama will require you to work. He is going to demand that you shed your cynicism. That you put down your divisions. That you come out of your isolation, that you move out of your comfort zones. That you push yourselves to be better. And that you engage. Barack will never allow you to go back to your lives as usual, uninvolved, uninformed.”

M. Obama, “then he slapped my ass and sent me to bed without supper.”

106
posted on 02/20/2008 12:38:33 PM PST
by wolfcreek
(Powers that be will lie like Clintons and spend like drunken McCains to push their Globalist agenda.)

"I will live in Montana. And I will marry a round American woman and raise rabbits, and she will cook them for me. And I will have a pickup truck... maybe even a "recreational vehicle." And drive from state to state. Do they let you do that?"

Hillary: Ruthless, uncaring, willing to cover up for rape and abuse by her husband, possibly a murderer, known to illegally peruse and misuse FBI files, willing to trade favors for money from Red China, willing to engage in secuirities fraud, known socialist.

Obama: Messianic movement leader, taught in a Madrassa, member of an allegedly Christian church but one that has given awards to Luis Farakhan, his mother married two muslims, most socialistic member of the Senate, will remove troops from Iraq ensuring American defeat, had a Communist mentor in youth, trained in an Alinsky organization, tied to Kenyan politician who has signed agreements to implement Sharia law, has had both his Democratic primary opponent and Republican general opponent in his Senate race destroyed by scandal, possibly an anti-christ.

If the adult politicians in the Democratic Party are paying any attention, they have to be unnerved by this social psychology nonsense, which is a dry hole politically... buyers remorse has got to be setting in. Borderline kooks.

I'm really mystified at the statements of many of his supporters. Just exactly what do they think he will be able to do for them? Other than receiving more tax-payer paid freebies I mean. That will only go so far. But somehow Obama has managed to convince these idiots that their lives will be changed dramatically with his election. When that doesn't happen (if he is elected), you might be right about hell breaking loose.

imho, Obama by a mile!
in a recent speech, thought I heard him talk about (young?)people enrolling in organizations that help others, i.e. Peace Corp. That’s probably what his wife meant when she said he’ll never allow you to go back to lives as usual.
When I heard Obama speak about this ‘service’, my first thought was of Hitler’s youth Brown Shirts.
I read clips from Obama’s book and, again imho, it is frightening to think he may be President of America.

Apparently from the columns I've read a number of them are just a bit nervous about Obamamania. Some of it is Hillary backers unhappy about her political demise. But a lot of it is lib Dems witnessing hysteria on a major level and finally recognizing the untamed, unhinged beast that is the Dem Party today. Dems and libs have always been suckers for messianic populists/demagogues. Now they have one who couches his socialism in pretty, earnest phrases. We'll all reap the whirlwind if he gets elected.

“The Svengali-like control Obama has over people makes me wonder......”

He doesn’t have any real control over people. These idiots have bought into the illusion, there’s no way he can maintain this. Halle Berry says she’ll pick up paper cups from his path, but she says that because she knows she’ll never be asked to do that. As soon as he tries to exert his control over his minions, about half of them will bolt, and go back to their Play Stations.

Disclaimer:
Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual
posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its
management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the
exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.